About us
Meet Bongo Bongo Divers
We’re a dive centre in Dauin, with rooms, a restaurant and our own home-roasted coffee on site. We’ve been diving Dauin since 2012, and we love helping guests plan their time here, whether you’re trying diving for the first time or coming back with a camera and a wish list.
Take a look around
A short film about life at Bongo Bongo: the diving, some of our rooms, the coffee roasting and the kitchen. Press play and see where you’ll be staying.
Meet the team
The people who'll be diving with you
A small team, so you'll get to know us. Between us we teach in English, French, German, Danish and Filipino.
Anthony Cruz
PADI Course Director
Runs our Instructor Development Courses and the prep days before them. The PADI Instructor Examination is held here in Dauin straight after each IDC.
Luna
PADI Master Instructor
Teaches PADI courses from Discover Scuba Diving to Divemaster and assists on our IDCs.
Magnus
PADI Master Instructor
Teaches PADI courses from Discover Scuba Diving to Divemaster and assists on our IDCs.
TJ
PADI Master Instructor
Teaches PADI courses from Discover Scuba Diving to Divemaster and assists on our IDCs.
Our local dive guides and boat crew complete the team. Ask us who's guiding on the days you're here.
What we do
Dauin diving
Daily dives along the Dauin coast, planned with you around your experience and interests.
Diving in DauinPADI courses
From Discover Scuba Diving to Rescue Diver, and on to Divemaster and instructor training with our Go Pro programme.
PADI coursesRestaurant & coffee
A place to share a meal and a cup of our home-roasted coffee between dives.
Restaurant & coffeeGroup trips
Rooms, diving, Apo days, meals and transfers planned together for clubs, dive centres and friends.
Group dive tripsStandards we work to
Platinum: PADI Asia Pacific
Professional Development Excellence Award, March 2026. Platinum is the highest of its four levels and recognises how many PADI professionals a centre trained in the previous year.
PADI 5 Star CDC & Eco Center
In 2026 we became a PADI 5 Star Career Development Center (CDC), PADI’s highest rating for dive centres that train instructors, and in March 2026 PADI Asia Pacific gave us its Professional Development Excellence Award at Platinum level. We train divers from their very first course through to instructor level, and 2026 also marks ten years of our Instructor Development Courses. Our Eco Center status reflects our commitment to protecting the reefs we dive.
Green Fins member
Green Fins is an environmental standard for dive and snorkel operators, led by The Reef-World Foundation and UN Environment Programme. It sets practical guidelines for diving in a way that looks after reefs and marine life.
Counting Dauin’s fish
Our science officer, Bart Hazes of Biodives, led a fish survey of Dauin and Apo Island with our dive guides, funded by the PADI AWARE Foundation. By November 2023 it had recorded more than 825 coastal fish species in Dauin, including two species new to science. See the survey on Biodives or read more about Dauin’s marine life.
Accredited in the Philippines
We’re accredited by the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (PCSSD). We’re also an authorised Shearwater dealer for dive computers, and you’ll find us on PADI Travel. Read how we look after you on our diving safety page.
Official dealer and partner
We're an authorised dealer for dive computers, action cameras and dive equipment, so you can buy from us here in Dauin and ask our team for advice before you do.
- PADI5 Star Career Development Center
- ShearwaterAuthorised dealer
- GarminAuthorised dealer
- GoProAuthorised dealer
- ProBlueAuthorised dealer
More than the diving
Our on-site restaurant and home-roasted coffee are part of life at Bongo. Come back from a dive, sit down for a meal, and talk through tomorrow’s plans over a cup of coffee we roast ourselves.
Our philosophy is simple: take your time and don’t rush. Our instructors work at a pace that suits you, and our team of passionate divers and self-confessed macro freaks know the sites of Dauin and Apo Island inside out. Between the pool, the garden and our resort dogs, most guests feel part of the Bongo family within a day or two.
Our restaurant & coffeeTalk to us
Tell us what you have in mind. Write to ask@divebongo.com and our team in Dauin will help you plan your trip. Between us, we speak English, Filipino, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish and French.
Rated by divers who’ve stayed with us
Honest reviews from our guests, on independent review sites.
Ratings as shown on each site in September 2026.